Handle connection.



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HANDLE CONNECTION.

APPLICATION FILED APR. Io, 1914.

Patented June 15, 1915.

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HANDLE CONNECTION.

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Application led April 10, 1914.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, EDWIN NAHR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Long Beach, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Handle Connection, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

My invention relates to a mop or equivalent article the mop head `and handle of which are equipped with novel coacting bearing elements to effect an adjustable connection of the handle with the head.

The invention will be particularly eX- plained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts' in all the views. p j

Figure 1 is a front view of a mop embodyl ing my invention, parts of the handle being broken away; Fig. 2 is a side elevation; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation; Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional elevation; Fig. 5 is a plan view of the mop head, the handle bein 1 omitted; and big. 6 is a pla-n view of the astener for the mop pad.

In constructing a practical embodiment of my invention in accordance with the illustrated example, a cap or case 10 is provided, adapted to receive the upper end of the mop pad 11, which is secured to the casing in the manner hereinafter described. The bearingv members of the handle comprise sockets here shown as consisting of spaced angle plates 12, having the feet 13 thereof secured to the top of the case 10 by rivets 14 or equivalent holding means. The sockets 12 are formed with registering bearings 15, and the socket 16 'for the handlell'V has expansible bearing elements rockable inv the' bearings 15 and frictionally held therein. l j vThe bearing members on the socket 16 are in the form of an expansible T-head comprising, members 18 and 19. rIhe members 18 are rigid with the socket 16 and project laterally at each side to enter therigid bearings 15 on the oase 10. The member 19 extends transversely from side to side into the bearing l5, and is disposed oppositely to the members 18. Both the rigid members 18 and the movable member 19 are rounded eX- teriorly to conform to the curvature of the fixed bearing member 15 on the case.

In order to hold the bearing members 18,

Specification of Letters Patent.. Patented June 15, 19115.

Serial-No. 830,883.

spring is coiled about a pin 21 that projects forwardly from the socket 16 centrally of the bearing members v18, and extends through an aperture 19:L in the movable bearing member 19, the opposed ends of the sprlng thus pressing against the respective bearings 18, 19, and tending' to force them outwardly into frictional Contact with thel bearings 15. v

By the described construction it will be seen that the handle may be given various ,angular positions relatively to the mop head and the handle will be maintained in the adjusted position, the-spring 20 being sufficient to prevent accidental displacement of the handle.

In the top of the case 10 a depression or shallow well 22 may be formed at the approximate center Iof said case, and an orifice 2 3 in the case atthe bottom'of said well leads to the interior of the case to a distributing absorbent pad 24., The said pad 24 lies against the top of they case at.. the under side, and is held in position by a fastener 25 which secures the upper end of the mop pad 11. The pad and the means to oil the same are not claimed in the present application.

The fastener 25 may consist of two resilient sections, as shown in Fig. 6. The sections are so connected as to permit of the fastener being compressed laterally against lthe resiliency of 'the sections, and also the said sections may have rockable movement relatively to each other, the -connections serving to facilitate the entrance of the fastener into the case 10. I have shown the Sections as each formed at one end with an eye 26 embracing the'adjacent terminal of the opposite section, said adjacent terminal having a bent end 27 constituting a stop limiting the lateral expansion of the sections. The fastener 25 is placed in the interior of the pad 11, at the top, the material of the pad being gathered above said fastener, and the bunched top of the pad with the fastener therein is inserted within the lower open end of the case or cap 10, said open bottom of the cap or case being defined by an inwardly projecting flange 10a. The end of the pad is crowded between the ange 10i1 and the under side of the oil pad 24, and the fastener 25 expands Within the case above the ange 10,thereby holding the mop pad securely in position in contact Withthe oil pad 24. v

rlhe described means for securing the mop are not herein claimed.

As seen best in Fig. 5, the cap 10 is of oval form, being approximately elliptical, and thereby is adapted for edective use beneath furniture and in corners.

Having thus described my invention, li

claim as new' and desire to secure by Letters Patent l. ln a device of the character described,

a head having a bearing With lits axis substantially parallel to the surface to be acted upon, and a handle member having a transverse expansible bearing thereon received in the bearing of the head and rockable in the latter bearing.

l 2. in a device of a head having a bearing with its axis substantially parallel to the surface to be acted upon, a handle member having a transverse l against said fixed the character described,

extensible bearing thereon formed of sepao and composed of a rounded member fixed to the handle and an opposed movable rounded member, a pin projecting from the xed member through the movable member, and a spring coiled about said pin and abutting and movable members.

ln, testimony whereof l have signed my l name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EDWIN NAi-llt.

Witnesses:

C. C. CRIPPEN, d. M. KEER.

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